Ivan Ivanov is executive director of the European Roma Information Office. Prior to this, he worked with the European Roma Rights Center in Bulgaria. During his five years as an attorney for the ERRC he helped bring numerous civil rights cases before the European Court of Human Rights and domestic courts in several Central and Eastern European countries. He also spent two years as a legal advisor for the Human Rights Project in Sofia, Bulgaria. As a PILnet International Fellow, Ivan developed a project on racial discrimination in education.